Parkesy

29 minutes ago, Rana007 said:

16 june is Saturday... The office was closed. Then how?

Office is open on Saturdays 

2 hours ago, STILL WAITING said:

Applied 187 in Nov 2016 in Restaurant Manager position. No news yet..Business is under liquidity and company will close soon. Any chances for pr ??????????

Probably not mate...sorry to hear

Haha. Its just outrageous!

11 minutes ago, KazBaker said:

Hi Parkesy,

can you tell me how can i access to immi account? MA used their official immi a/c to submit my visa application now they are saying that it is not able to provide me the detail of their immi account due to many application been exist already, so as an applicant i can not access into my visa progress with the situation.I have my own but wasn’t used by them. Is their any other way i can access there?

 

I thought someone had answered this for you no?

Sorry i don't know the answer as I did my application myself.

2 hours ago, pzuk said:

I think someone said yesterday that it's likely to be updated today?

Changes each month. Some months its the 22nd, the next the 15th. Somewhere in-between but definitely will be soon.

I sort of feel the processing times are pointless as they can be easily manipulated or affected by what occupations are currently being processed. Some occupations have less applications and therefore can be turned round quicker for example. I wouldn't pay too much attention - taken me a year to realise that!

I would just like to apologise for my poor grammar reading that last post. I'm always distracted and typing the posts on my phone so repeat/spell things wrong constantly.

Ive also got fat fingers!

I cringed when I read it back..

24 minutes ago, bobobz said:

my workplace wasnt very good in the past 5 months and I was stressed out and almost gave up.. lucky i had friends and family supporting me all the way..., it just started to get much better now, but still, when it comes down to this waiting game, i am still frustrated eventhough it is not as much as I was before. I lost 4kg during that stressful time!

I've put on 10kg mate so you should be happy hahaha!

Almost exactly the same situation for me to apart from that. We will be alright I reckon. The people who are processing the file are doing the best they can, Breaking down those Guardia figures I reckon they are having a good crack at it on limited resources....

Example:

165,000 forecasted approved visa by 30 June 2018.

138,000 approved at the end of April 2018.

That leaves estimated 27,000 to process in 2 months. The article said two thirds of the approvals are skilled work visas so that means 18,000 for ENS over those two months. Thats means they are approving 2,250 a week!....But thats only approvals which means they are processing more. There is roughly a 15% refusal rate so that means we need to add 15% on top of the 2,250. The result is that immigration is processing approximately 2,587 applications per week! So before July, roughly they will go through 5,200 more applications or 71 applications an hour!

20 minutes ago, bobobz said:

I wish I could forget this forum and the immigration stuff. But it gets too much in my brain already and i feel like I check this forum unconsciously sometimes and realised damn, I keep opening this whenever i turn on my phone.. I guess there is no point of checking immiaccount as the first thing you will receive is an email from immigration straight away. I was shocked I received an email from immigration 3 days ago, but then I read the subject it was bridging visa grant.. i was like... damnnnnnnn.... man. i hope this is over soon with a very good news and for everybody who has been waiting since last year!

Haha. Yeah I always feel like there is going to be an email in the messages bit and there never is.

Mate I feel you. Its super ingrained into my daily life but I have just accepted it! I figure I'm going to be waiting maybe another 6 months (that would make it 18 months) as Im just pretty unlucky so no point fretting too much.

10 minutes ago, XK-NL said:

Marketing Specialist, 186 DIRECT ENTRY.

Reason for Nomination Refusal: the business not shown financial capacity for a 2 year  FT position

They did not ask for further documents, make the decision straight away.

 

Oh no thats not good. I guess in your appeal your company will need to show that they are going to be in a strong financial position...

When did you apply?

13 minutes ago, XK-NL said:

mine got refused on last THUR as well.. My MA is prepare to lodge AAT

What was the reason?

What were the details of your application? Assuming you are marketing if you are commenting on this thread?

Sorry to hear

56 minutes ago, Sunny2311 said:

What Can I say '' I HAVE RECEIVED MY GOLDEN EMAIL THIS EVENING "

All done N dusted .......

I applied 25 Dec 2017.... Finished 14 June 2018

Nomination applied 15 DEC ... Finished 10 May 2018...

Cant believe I did lodge my application bymy self and Got it..

Occupation ... Diesel Motor Mechanic.

Two people .....

Good luck to everyone.. guys i received lot of support from this website.

 

Department asked me the further docs which i submitted... today I called them bz it was over 28 days and in 5 Min i received my Golden email..

 

  

Congrats Sunny

Remember its not a target they are saying now - the 190k is a ceiling. The 165k is just a forecasted figure, not something they are aiming for necessarily accord to the report and spokesperson.

10 minutes ago, Kashif.Iqbal said:

As per this news, almost 15k to 20k migration visas will be grant in next couple of weeks, I.e. before 1st July 2018.

More like 9k if you work out the figures against the time remaining in the month.

17 minutes ago, Nora said:

Hello everyone,

Did you guys see this? 

 

"To 30 April this year the Australian government had granted 138,086 permanent visas divided broadly into two-thirds skilled, one-third family (and excluding humanitarian visas, which sit outside the migration program figure). “It’s probably down on where we were this time last year,” a first assistant secretary for the Department of Home Affairs department, Christine Dacey, told estimates last month. Extrapolated to the full year ending 30 June, it appears likely about 165,000 migration visas will be granted."

 

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/jun/13/australias-immigration-rate-to-fall-again-as-work-visa-approvals-drop

Hope everyone gets the golden email soon! We are still waiting for ours
Cheers,

Nora

I had seen something similar a few months ago but now we are getting to the EOFY its becoming much clearer in terms of the final numbers. As expected all things considered.

Good post - thank you.

6 minutes ago, canuck64 said:

I really hope the next two weeks is marketing...would just be an absolute ripper. lets send all the positive marketing juju our way lads and lasses

 

Yes mate! I love this attitude haha. 

10 minutes ago, EDB07 said:

Haha...  I think this entire Forum will celebrate once your PR is approved 

Am i that bad hahaha?

(I know I am )

6 minutes ago, millski88 said:

I got two immi grant notification emails with attachements, one for me and one for my partner. I presume because of this my partner doesn't know yet (hehe) so I'm planning on surprising her with it as soon as I knock off today!

Funnily enough my status in immi online did change to 'Finalised' but then changed back to Recieved... I think it's being processed through the database for the site, as the grant letters appear next to the status of 'Recieved'... weird.

 

 

Yeah same for two 457's. Wondered it its worth logging into Immi every 4 hours but it seems the best bet is to just wait for the emails!!

6 minutes ago, millski88 said:

Thanks mate! I do feel for you sitting there still from June but it's looking like they're really ploughing through marketing now, could be any moment!!

I really hope so man. Ive had a tough one last 6 months and now things have drastically improved I could do with a little sweetener such as PR!

Pumped you got it though mate!

Hey @millski88 did you see the status change or get the email first? I want to envision mine coming through!

7 minutes ago, KazBaker said:

Golden notification. Congratulations! Mate. Have party tonight?

I meant I can't believe it for @millski88

5 minutes ago, millski88 said:

Can't believe i'm saying this:

I got my golden emails! Just now about 20 minutes ago...

 

186 TRT

Occupation: Marketing Specialist

LR Country

Number of applicants: 2

Nomination applied: 11th October 2017

Visa applied: 24th October 2017

[Nothing further requested. No contact made.]

Nomination and Visa granted: 14th June 2018

 

Still can't quite believe it, i'm in shock!

 

Good luck everyone. I know so many of you have been waiting a lot longer than me.

 

HOLY SH1T!!! I can't believe it neither!! Thats insane mate. so happy for you! Jealous as a duck but still very happy for you!!!! Hahaha

27 minutes ago, KazBaker said:

Are you in vic bro?

Yeah I am. TRT visa, 1 person, low risk country.

EDIT: Sorry thought you were talking to me.

6 minutes ago, KazBaker said:

Anyone received Golden email today?

Finger cross..

Doesnt look like it!

43 minutes ago, Speedbird73 said:

Parkesy

when did you Lodge your application with Immi? Did you use a MA or did you do it yourself.

thanks 

Nomination 12 months today. Visa launched last week of June.

The business used our MA partner for the nomination side and I did my own for the application.

We sponsor around 150 people a year.